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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10060, 3 June 1910, Page 7

cultural work, etc., are not yet so scarce as the stamp of animal required for field artillery. The substitution of motor vehicles for horsed waggons will no doubt improve the average speed of ammunition column*, and petrol for motors will probably prove eaier, on the whole, to provide during a long march, than forage for a number of horses. It is to be hoped lhat some more practical operations than the "motor dashes" by an infantry battalion at a time may shortly be attempted. An endeavour should be made to use groups of motors in conjunction with cyclists infantry in some extended scheme of operations, su as to ascertain how they may best co-operate. The fact that England, for instance, has undoubtedly the finest cyclist infantry in Europe—men so athletic, and with such mastery of their machines, that even in large numbers they an easily accomplish sixty miles a day—should make cr-operation between cyclist corps and motor-carried infantry by no means difficult.